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North Korea Is Hiring

By Jackie Singh

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In short: a North Korean intelligence operation tried to take over my business partner's laptop with a fake job offer. The technique, "Contagious Interview," turns a recruiter's coding "test" into malware that runs the instant you open the project folder. Most of the campaign is already well-documented by the researchers I credit at the end.

What is first-hand and new here are additional live command servers found by hunting the operators' hosting and repositories. Public reporting then ties parts of that infrastructure to an EU-sanctioned Russian bulletproof network.

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